On December 23, it was learned from the National Conference on Market Regulation that in 2024, the quality index of business entity development in China will be 73.92, an increase of 0.22 compared to the previous year. The indicators of scale structure, activity level, and compliance operation have increased by 0.85, 0.31, and 0.25 respectively compared to the previous year. The enterprise credit index is 158.36, stable in a good range. In the first 10 months, Chinese enterprises owned 3.417 million valid domestic invention patents, a year-on-year increase of 21.3%. In the first three quarters, 7.216 million tax related individual industrial and commercial households were newly established nationwide, a year-on-year increase of 17.4%, and the advertising business revenue of top enterprises and institutions exceeded 1.1 trillion yuan. The development quality of the business entity is steadily improving. The State Administration for Market Regulation actively guides online trading platforms to use traffic to support the development of small and medium-sized business entities. Innovatively carry out quality financing to increase credit, granting credit of 200 billion yuan to over 20000 enterprises. Deeply carry out the action of improving the quality management system certification of small and micro enterprises, and participate in the annual revenue increase of 9.7% on average. At the same time, we will provide precise support for the development of individual businesses. We have issued the "Guiding Opinions on Carrying out Precise Assistance for Individual Industrial and Commercial Households to Improve Development Quality", established the "National List of Individual Industrial and Commercial Households", built and operated the "National Individual Industrial and Commercial Households Development Network" and the "Famous, Special, Excellent and New" cultivation platform, and identified 115000 "Famous, Special, Excellent and New" individual industrial and commercial households nationwide. In addition, the "Compliance Guidelines for Charging Behaviors of Industry Associations and Chambers of Commerce" have been issued to increase the supervision and law enforcement of illegal charging by enterprises. A total of 69000 charging units have been inspected nationwide, 1751 cases have been filed, and refunds of 720 million yuan have been urged. Assisted in repairing the credit of business entities, with a cumulative repair of 6.677 million abnormal business directory information. We launched a special law enforcement campaign to protect intellectual property rights, investigating and handling 33000 cases of intellectual property violations and transferring 912 cases to judicial authorities. Nationwide, 3300 tons of counterfeit and inferior goods worth 330 million yuan were uniformly destroyed. Carry out the second "Enterprise Trade Secret Protection Capability Enhancement Service Month" activity and establish 24000 trade secret protection service sites. The fair competition market environment continues to optimize. In 2024, China's fair competition market environment will continue to optimize. The proportion of problems found in the national fair competition review spot check was 2.02%, a year-on-year decrease of 2.78%. The average acceptance time for simple cases of concentration of business operators decreased by 5.7 days year-on-year, and the number of applications decreased by 17.4% year-on-year after the reform of application standards, making investment and mergers and acquisitions more convenient. The anti-monopoly and unfair competition law enforcement in the pharmaceutical industry has promoted a 61.8% price reduction of the drugs involved, further standardizing the industry order. The national market regulatory authorities have recovered economic losses of 4.35 billion yuan for consumers. In 2024, the national market regulatory authorities received 18.549 million complaints and reports, a year-on-year increase of 8.41%, marking the first significant decline in growth rate in five years; Recovered economic losses of 4.35 billion yuan for consumers, a year-on-year increase of 28%. The national consumer complaint disclosure rate has increased from 78.5% to 97.1%, the online source resolution rate of consumer disputes has increased from 18.9% to 22.6%, and the offline seven day no reason return continues to expand and increase efficiency. The success rate of complaint mediation in the market supervision system has been increasing year by year to 54%, with an average processing time of 16 days, a year-on-year compression of 2.1 days. 11.36 million consumer complaints were publicly announced nationwide, prompting business operators to cooperate with mediation and actively settle. The online consumer dispute resolution mechanism has expanded its coverage and improved its quality, promoting 209000 enterprises to directly settle 4.2 million cases with consumers. Offline no reason returns cover 1.209 million physical stores, with a cumulative return of 7.35 billion yuan. (New Society)